Business and Economics

Information seeking is a process that goes hand in hand with the research process. An information seeking plan helps you map your progress and conduct systematic information searches. Read more about starting your research process in Library Tutorial.

Most resources are only available to university staff and students either on computers in the university network or via remote access.

Information Resources in Business and Economics

In business and economics, research is published both as scholarly articles and in books. Business and economics research is also published in conference papers. Business and economics are studied and researched both in the national and international context in Finland. Peer-reviewed international articles are valued in all fields. In many databases, you can limit your search results to peer-reviewed articles. This helps you choose scholarly and reliable sources.

JYKDOK basic search does not include articles, but JYKDOK has a separate International e-materials search where you can search for articles from multiple databases at once.

You can limit the search results to peer-reviewed articles. This search is inaccurate, so for more systematic and specific searches use the databases.This search is useful if you already know the name of the article,because you can use it to locate the full text of the article.

Access more full-text articles in Google Scholar (no paywall)Log in to JYKDOK with your Jyväskylä university credentials, find Google Scholar in JYKDOK and click Database interface. This lets you access Google Scholar through the university network and gives you access to more articles = articles purchased by the university library, Open Science Centre.

Keep in mind that

Google Scholar searches across different disciplines and sources, both scholarly and not scholarly.

You are not able to limit your search results to scholarly articles, which makes it harder for you to tell which search results are scientific and reliable.

The "Cited by" does not simply imply quality, but rather the impact of the article. The citation number can be high for example for conference papers that are freely accessible online. To evaluate search results, always consider the source: is the article published in a scholarly journal or is the text available through a pre-print archive, for example. Use Publication Forum to evaluate journals and decide which you want to use.

Institutional repository of content created by members of the University of Jyväskylä. Most of the content is openly available online. JYX contains articles, dissertations, theses, licentiate theses, presentations and more.

Dictionaries and thesauri in different languages e.g. to help you come up with search terms.

Citing and managing references

Keeping your references organized so that you can cite them appropriately is part of systematic information seeking. Avoid plagiarism by learning to cite your sources properly. By citing your sources you make clear which are your own ideas, and which are somebody else’s. To avoid plagiarism always mention the original source when you

Quote someone’s text directly ("a quote")

Summarize or explain someone else’s ideas or arguments in your own words (...something in your own words...)

Borrow other people’s text, ideas, research results, illustrations

Present facts that are not common knowledge

The same rules apply whether you quote from a printed book or from an electronic source (e-books, e-journals, web pages etc).